I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

I would only make a movie that I believe in. If I didn't believe in it, it would be unworthy.

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies.

If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play.

I didn't even know what a film director was. To me, Charlie Chaplin was a goofy clown, and John Ford - what? Never heard of him.

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

My roommate at Yale University introduced me to the auteur theory of filmmaking. I soon became a big fan of the works of John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, and Stan Brakhage. I then decided to make my own films!